Elizabeth
@nightshaderose.bsky.social
—Failing to meet expectations since 1977–
Political refugee from Texas. She/her.
Mostly looking after house and family. Very pointedly avoiding restarting an art business. I just want to make stuff.
Political refugee from Texas. She/her.
Mostly looking after house and family. Very pointedly avoiding restarting an art business. I just want to make stuff.
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"your trauma made you stronger". no, my trauma made me traumatized. it made me weak, it gave me memory loss, and it gave me feelings i've never wanted. i made myself stronger by dragging myself out of a dark place and dealing with consequences that weren’t my fault.
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"your trauma made you stronger". no, my trauma made me traumatized. it made me weak, it gave me memory loss, and it gave me feelings i've never wanted. i made myself stronger by dragging myself out of a dark place and dealing with consequences that weren’t my fault.
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DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
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I am old enough to remember when ‘if readers can’t verify it, it doesn’t count’ was a golden rule of academic research.
If you misunderstand a source, your conclusions will be wrong, but at least your argument may have merit. If you’re not even reading the source, you can never be right.
If you misunderstand a source, your conclusions will be wrong, but at least your argument may have merit. If you’re not even reading the source, you can never be right.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I am old enough to remember when ‘if readers can’t verify it, it doesn’t count’ was a golden rule of academic research.
If you misunderstand a source, your conclusions will be wrong, but at least your argument may have merit. If you’re not even reading the source, you can never be right.
If you misunderstand a source, your conclusions will be wrong, but at least your argument may have merit. If you’re not even reading the source, you can never be right.
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My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
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This wonderful old meme bears sharing. 🌲...🦌...🌲
December 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This wonderful old meme bears sharing. 🌲...🦌...🌲
I distinctly remember, well before public smoking bans were common, the absolute novelty of Muse Air, the first entirely non-smoking airline. I begged mom to use them when I got shipped cross-country (unaccompanied) to spend the summer with my grandparents.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I distinctly remember, well before public smoking bans were common, the absolute novelty of Muse Air, the first entirely non-smoking airline. I begged mom to use them when I got shipped cross-country (unaccompanied) to spend the summer with my grandparents.
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if you’ve got a position for someone to work from home doing design/editing (or really anything I’m not proud) type stuff hit me up I need a new job
December 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
if you’ve got a position for someone to work from home doing design/editing (or really anything I’m not proud) type stuff hit me up I need a new job
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"If Democrats want to win Texas, the work is not in chasing an imaginary rural wave. It’s in turning out the millions of voters who already live in urban and metro counties, shoring up suburban margins, and investing seriously in places where Democratic voters
Why chasing rural votes won’t flip Texas.
Where Are Texas Democrats?
Why chasing rural votes won’t flip Texas.
www.lonestarleft.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"If Democrats want to win Texas, the work is not in chasing an imaginary rural wave. It’s in turning out the millions of voters who already live in urban and metro counties, shoring up suburban margins, and investing seriously in places where Democratic voters
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I have been editing a first draft of documentation done by GitHub Copilot, by which I mean “mostly entirely rewriting because Copilot writes like an enthusiastic but uninformed intern hopped up on six Red Bulls”.
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have been editing a first draft of documentation done by GitHub Copilot, by which I mean “mostly entirely rewriting because Copilot writes like an enthusiastic but uninformed intern hopped up on six Red Bulls”.
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Please check out how cool this fireplace screen is that an artist friend of my mother’s made.
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Please check out how cool this fireplace screen is that an artist friend of my mother’s made.
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All the Black Americans who are *also* descendants of the Founders, but for very different reasons, should come out and rickroll these idiots
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
All the Black Americans who are *also* descendants of the Founders, but for very different reasons, should come out and rickroll these idiots
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Guys when you post a screencap from an article please share the link both so I know it’s real and also in case I want to read the full story
December 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Guys when you post a screencap from an article please share the link both so I know it’s real and also in case I want to read the full story
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Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
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So the thing about this - the first of many things, but just the first thing that jumps out to me:
"Seize Cartel Assets." On drug boats. That's drugs and automatic weapons.
"Hey, do you want a shit-ton of coke and bulk Chinese AK-47s? That you won't have to declare to anyone? Go get 'em, sport!"
"Seize Cartel Assets." On drug boats. That's drugs and automatic weapons.
"Hey, do you want a shit-ton of coke and bulk Chinese AK-47s? That you won't have to declare to anyone? Go get 'em, sport!"
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
So the thing about this - the first of many things, but just the first thing that jumps out to me:
"Seize Cartel Assets." On drug boats. That's drugs and automatic weapons.
"Hey, do you want a shit-ton of coke and bulk Chinese AK-47s? That you won't have to declare to anyone? Go get 'em, sport!"
"Seize Cartel Assets." On drug boats. That's drugs and automatic weapons.
"Hey, do you want a shit-ton of coke and bulk Chinese AK-47s? That you won't have to declare to anyone? Go get 'em, sport!"
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This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
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There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
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ai is producing as much carbon as ALL of new york city and is consuming as much water as (rereads article) "all of the bottled water on earth".
come on now...
this is NOT, on any level, sustainable.
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
come on now...
this is NOT, on any level, sustainable.
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
AI may need more water than drank from bottles
Study: Environmental impacts already huge.
www.sfexaminer.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
ai is producing as much carbon as ALL of new york city and is consuming as much water as (rereads article) "all of the bottled water on earth".
come on now...
this is NOT, on any level, sustainable.
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
come on now...
this is NOT, on any level, sustainable.
www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
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It was a very discombobulating experience this year to see someone (in a rebuttal to a review I had submitted for their paper) cite a paper by me, on a topic I publish in, in a journal I publish in, with coauthors I publish with, but which DIDN’T EXIST!
Stop this crap immediately.
Stop this crap immediately.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It was a very discombobulating experience this year to see someone (in a rebuttal to a review I had submitted for their paper) cite a paper by me, on a topic I publish in, in a journal I publish in, with coauthors I publish with, but which DIDN’T EXIST!
Stop this crap immediately.
Stop this crap immediately.
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I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
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“I have to use ai art because people are mean to beginners” yeah totally I have to shoot myself in the dick because its hard to make friends in your 30s. what the fuck are you talking about?
December 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“I have to use ai art because people are mean to beginners” yeah totally I have to shoot myself in the dick because its hard to make friends in your 30s. what the fuck are you talking about?
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Think I have conclusively demonstrated that the search tool for the limited release Epstein Files published so far by the Justice Department does not work
December 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Think I have conclusively demonstrated that the search tool for the limited release Epstein Files published so far by the Justice Department does not work